Mcphee - A House In Bali. [paperback Reprint].

Petaling Jaya, Oxford University Press, 1979. Small 8°., orig. thin stiff coloured illustrated glossy wrappers. 134pp., ills. on 16 photo-plates with captions, after author's photographs, glossary indonesian-english, table of contents, publ. synopsis on lower outer wrapper. A pre-war description of Bali, physical geography, population, performing arts, religion and ceremonies, social structures, life and death, music, all after author's own observations and experience. Author, a US composer, arrived on Bali in 1938 in the company of US anthropologists as Margaret Mead, Jane Belo, Gregory Bateson.. and left before the outbreak of the Pacific war. Very good copy.